2.5" hdds??

-Nick- · 28 Jan 2007 at 15:12

what are the best make to go for with laptop hdds? what's the best IDE make and what's the best SATA make?

cheers
-Nick-

unde4d · 28 Jan 2007 at 15:16

maxtor?

Will_3rd · 28 Jan 2007 at 15:16

Seagate, Hitachi and Fujitsu are all very good laptop hard drive makes for both SATA and PATA.

naro · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:01

if you want silent and cool hdds, you should look at Samsung. They are very cool and quiet.

but if you want performance, go for Hitachi's 7200rpm hdds. They are one of the best ard

Clarkey · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:16

got a samsung sata drive in my laptop, very quiet, performance aint so hot but what can you expect.

Massive Attack · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:19

you cant go wrong buying any seagate drive

Carter · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:26

Massive Attack said:
you cant go wrong buying any seagate drive

What are they like for noise? I could do with a 120GB one, I've currently got a 40GB samsung and I cannot hear it at all.

Sandmaster500 · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:58

I've got a seagate 80gb IDE one and i've yet to hear it. Most important thing to me in the reliability and seagate have one of the best reputations on this front.
Can't really comment on the speed as i've got nothing to compare it to but i've never noticed it being slow.

If i were buying again i'd get a seagate.

Massive Attack · 28 Jan 2007 at 17:45

Carter said:
What are they like for noise? I could do with a 120GB one, I've currently got a 40GB samsung and I cannot hear it at all.

i have a 120gb and they ae pretty quite, i use it as an external.

Carter · 28 Jan 2007 at 18:06

Massive Attack said:
i have a 120gb and they ae pretty quite, i use it as an external.

Thanks.

Massive Attack · 28 Jan 2007 at 18:36

Carter said:
Thanks.

look around before you buy i got mine for £80 new from a competitor

Carter · 28 Jan 2007 at 19:03

Will do, might be a while yet though, need to sell first

mosfet · 28 Jan 2007 at 19:18

Seagate for me, the 5400.3s are absolutely astonishing drives, feel as snappy as 7200RPM Desktop drives and are cool and quiet.

meansizzler · 28 Jan 2007 at 23:05

Have a 100GB 7200.1 IDE, very fast 50MB/s Transfer rate, takes 3 seconds to copy 150MB file to it from Seagate 7200.9, on par if not better than the 7200.9... Drive Whining/Idle is not that loud at all, not as loud as 3.5" Drives..,